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Took out ram stick and put it back in, now comp won't detect
Posted: 2005-08-21 07:10pm
by Captain tycho
Fooling around in my tower, I took out a stick of 512mb DDR333 ram by popping the two holders on the top and bottom, mostly just to look at it and see if it was corroded or coated with dust, as I've been having ram problems of late. Seeing none, I put it back in correctly, but couldn't get the holders to snap into place over it. (the 'prong's the holders latch onto are sticking too far out.) I've tried pushing it in more, but I don't want to damage the ram.
Any ideas?
Posted: 2005-08-21 08:03pm
by Beowulf
Push harder. It's fairly difficult to break a stick of RAM this way. Most of them actually take a bit of force to push in.
Posted: 2005-08-21 08:14pm
by Captain tycho
Ahh, there we go. It took ALOT of force, actually, I was afraid I was going to snap it in half. Thanks Beo.
Posted: 2005-08-21 08:24pm
by darthdavid
Yeah. I always feel like I'm gonna break something whenever I do it.
Posted: 2005-08-21 11:06pm
by Elheru Aran
Small tip my dad gave me today regarding cards and RAM, plug-ins like that-- often if something's not functioning, open up the tower and wiggle them a bit, then push them in a little more firmly. Worked for me-- got my video card back online...
Posted: 2005-08-22 04:41pm
by Exonerate
Captain tycho wrote:Ahh, there we go. It took ALOT of force, actually, I was afraid I was going to snap it in half. Thanks Beo.
What did I tell you in the SDN Chat? Apply force to both sides evenly. If that doesn't work, use brute force, and if it still doesn't work, you're not using enough
Posted: 2005-08-22 05:00pm
by Elheru Aran
Exonerate wrote:Captain tycho wrote:Ahh, there we go. It took ALOT of force, actually, I was afraid I was going to snap it in half. Thanks Beo.
What did I tell you in the SDN Chat? Apply force to both sides evenly. If that doesn't work, use brute force, and if it still doesn't work, you're not using enough
Somehow, that goes *so* beautifully with your sig...
Posted: 2005-08-22 06:27pm
by Chardok
Ha! That's awesome that you were able to muscle it in. I was going to go the doom-and-gloom route and say "Did you make sure you were grounded when you did it? It only takes a very small amount of ESD to ruin something like that forever." MUAAHAHAHA....err....sorry. I'll just be going now.